Twitter responds to Osama's death

I don't know if you've heard, but, Osama Bin Laden died. Of course you've heard, this has been quite the major event. As with all major events these days, particularly deaths, the socials networks went crazy. Today Twitter released it's statistics from last night. Just before President Obama made his speech, Twitter users were generating around 5,000 tweets per second. That should give you some indication of just how much this moment resonated with people.

It was also possible to measure the unoriginality of humour during the announcement. Both 'Megatron' and 'Jack Bauer' were among the trending topics. Everyone's a comedian.

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'Geography Of Hate' Uses Twitter Data To Map Most Racist And Homophobic Places In America

Social Media, for all its beneficial qualities, can also be quite the hot bed for racist, homophobic and ableist thinking. Floating Sheep, a group of geography academics, has created the "Geography of Hate" in this vein, using Twitter data to map the most hate-filled states in America.

So O2 haven't exactly been the most reliable network over the last couple days. A huge amount of customers have been affected by the network outages across the country, so many have taken to Twitter to vent their anger. Luckily, the in-house social media team of @O2 were waiting, with some rather hilarious responses.

Twitter gets a convicted man off Death Row

"Choices to be made. Hearts to be broken... We each define the great line." This is the Underoath-influenced tweet that a juror made during a case, which may result in a convicted murderer escaping death row, since the communication caused the Supreme Court to overturn the decision.

RIM Calls On Superheroes To Save Them. Twitter Campaign Backfires

So if you've had your ear to the ground for rumblings surrounding RIM, you'll have figured out that the company aren't doing so great. A big CEO switcharound, ever-reducing confidence in their lack of innovations, and a tablet that's failed to take off.

It's in these situations where we regress into our somewhat geek-ridden imaginations and conjur a super hero, well that's exactly what the company has done. 'The Bold Team' infographic was created off a Twitter campaign they did surrounding #BeBold resolutions, analysing 35,000 tweets worth of data and collating them into four cartoon personas.